Norman McLaren Quotes
Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
Quotes to Explore
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
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We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
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It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
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The Church had its own law code and its own courts of law which were supreme over the clergy, and had large rights of jurisdiction even over the laity, so that it could develop and give effect to its own ideas of law and right.
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.
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When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.
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The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.
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Trust that your message is a unique one that people need to hear.
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I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.
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Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.
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Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
